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1. Comment - XP Won't Run on Intel MacBook, iMac

   (Jan 12, 2006 - 7:40 PM)

   hell thats easy I have been a Mutilmedia artist for 10years + and a Windows Admin for 6 years +! (managed about 300+ Win PCs and 5-6 Windows Servers) so lets just say I have pretty equal experience from both sides of the fence. Keep in mind Id switch to something else tomorrow if it WAS better, but at present heres a small list for you:
   OSX - with *nix underpinnings, hell I got more network tools than I ever could have right from the terminal (can a win user say SSH? wheres the tools to mount NFS, or HFS+ disks Hybrid Cds/DVDs, oh thats right you have to buy them, all you can read is NTFS/Fat32. And Video, Can you run industry standards such as FCP, Motion, Shake, Logic? Do all your Video devices seamlessly integrate? Does your FW hardware work flawlessly without buying expensive add on cards? (I stuffed around for 4 years trying to produce content in XP with enough money spent on capture boards to make a Quad G5 look dirt cheap!) How about Graphics? Does your XP box have built in Color management? Do the ICC profiles seamlessly integrate from your photo catalogue apps all the way through to Photoshop and what ever publishing app you use (sorry I have not seen an XP box do this effectivley yet) Can your XP Box handle PS1 PS2 TT and OPenType Fonts? I remember the days not long ago when Apple was doomed and NT4 was to dominate the publishing industry! Funny stuff indeed! How about general Office work? well clearly you have not used or compared Office for Mac to Office for PC? Drag and drop installation (no "Install Shields/Wizards here thanks) Superior security model (virus, spyware issues) yep none of those for the past 5 years on my Macs either! Oh and games! Buddy I stopped playing at PC based Lan partys when we all got the s***s spending 2 hours getting everyone connected, games and sound cards working! Can you say the word... Playstaion 2 or Xbox 360? My Windows friends you have been using dead technology now for at least 4 years! Time to move on and use OSX or Debian or something gawd! Hey you just might be blessed with Longhorn-Vista! (or the new name... Windows XMas 2006) But if my many years in the Windows industry watching promise after promise from NT3.51 thru to WinXP has taught me anything.... Don't hold your breath! ;-) mjb